I've always loved being able to immerse myself in other lives with the persona poem. When I do, I feel a kind of lushness and freedom that sometimes escapes me otherwise. In particular, I gravitate to poems about women, real and imagined. I've explored the lives of the Bronte sisters in poetry, as well as Emily Dickinson, Demeter and Persephone, Emily Carr and here, of course, the exquisite Victorian-age photographer Julia Margaret Cameron.